Monument Square clock to be repaired

Monument Square's 12-foot black clock has been in the square since 1975.

The city stopped maintaining it over the past decade, and it hasn't worked for years.

In the past year, students at Maine College of Art have been covering the clock with different artwork to raise awareness about it.

The Portland Rotary Club, MECA, the Downtown District, and the City of Portland have all joined forces to raise money to help repair it.

Cyrus Hagge of the Portland Rotary said, "It's become invisible so we thought, 'How do we repair this clock and raise money to do it? How do we make something invisible become visible again?' And that's where MECA comes in."

The repairs and maintenance will cost about $25,000.

The Rotary Club said a lot of the money has already been raised.

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